Summer Heights High Analysis

The Australian television series “Summer Heights High”, whilst being quite popular in both a domestic or international sense, has not had a noticeable or lasting impact on global popular culture.
Throughout the course of this multi-modal presentation I will be further exploring this statement, as well as a diverse range of subtopics that will help to further expand on the reasoning and logic behind it, these subtopics being; How the Television series was received globally/how successful was it and does it classify as global popular culture and whether there was a lasting influence on the mentality or behavior of its viewership or target audience.

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However, this same factor also had a large influence on the wide criticism the show received, mainly coming from concerned and angry parents as their children were beginning to adopt the behaviour portrayed in the show. For example, one of Chris Lilley’s characters, Jonah, uses discriminatory slang such as “Ranga” and “Homo” when referring to other students. However most would agree that these criticisms are somewhat lacking in common sense, as most parents would simply stop their children from watching the show if they were upset from its influence on their children. The fact of the matter is that “Summer Heights High” contains somewhat controversial content but wether or not it is influencing the behaviour or mentality of its viewership is quite unlikely. However, having an effect on the mentality of a consumer is something that we commonly associate with global popular culture items such as Justin Bieber or Video Games, further proving that “Sumer Heights High” is not apart of Global Popular